CNA Staff, Dec 12, 2024 / 06:00 am Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill is sending letters in support of new mothers in Russia as part of a new project designed to encourage pregnant women to keep ...

"Russia really does have a demographic problem," the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, said on November 12 as he called for a nationwide ban on "encouraging women to have ...

A student reads a textbook in a school in Russia in November 2022. A Russian textbook has gained attention after excerpts of its lessons on how women should avoid "provoking" men were published on ...

OPINION Putin and Russian Orthodox Church forge an unholy alliance to take over Ukraine Putin's Russia isn’t just at war with Ukraine, it’s at war with Christianity ...

The Russian population was reported to be 146,447,424 as of January 1, a figure lower than the population in 1999 when Putin first assumed the presidency.

A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 3, 2023, Section SR, Page 5 of the New York edition with the headline: Russian Women Get a Warning That Their Rights Are in Peril.

Russian Attack On Dnipro Kills 2 Women, Injures At Least 16 A firefighter works at the site of a warehouse hit by a Russian missile strike in Dnipro on April 10. (file photo) ...

The Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), founded in 1995, became official in 2018 with the approval of Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I, who oversaw the separation after a unification council.

Rev. Nazari Polataiko at the Holy Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Los Angeles is still haunted by the sound of sirens, even months after visiting his native Ukraine last summer.

The Mosow Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, has blessed Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He's seen here at an economic summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 27.

He asserted that this supposed ideology should be characterized as “extremist.” A top official with the Russian Orthodox Church immediately endorsed the proposal.

A new UN report found that women in Ukraine experience systematic sexual violence by Russian troops. Women as old as 83 have been raped while their families were forced to listen to the brutal ...